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Wisconsin Continues Right-Wing Structural Reforms That Have Transformed the United States

Jay Murdock

Mar 16, 2011
5 min

Wisconsin Continues Right-Wing Structural Reforms That Have Transformed the United States

Mark Weisbrot: Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, D.C. Posted: March 15, 2011 04:15 PM With the latest turn of events in Wisconsin, Republican state senators have circumvented the need for a quorum vote on Scott Walker’s budget bill by leaving out the fiscal clauses and passing the new laws curbing collective bargaining rights for state and public employees. This dubious tactical maneuver strips away the pretense that Walker and his GOP allies

MadisonWorld: A Future Where Corporations Have Human Rights … And Humans Don’t

Jay Murdock

Mar 11, 2011
8 min

MadisonWorld: A Future Where Corporations Have Human Rights … And Humans Don’t

Richard (RJ) Eskow – Consultant, Writer, Senior Fellow with The Campaign for America’s Future: Posted: March 11, 2011 01:09 AM Today we saw state troopers in Madison tearing peaceful protestors out of their own capitol after the state’s Senate voted to deprive them of their rights. Video footage of that event should come with a label: Brought to you by the State of Wisconsin, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries. Right now Wisconsin is serving as the prototype for Un

Jay Murdock

Mar 8, 2011
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The Birth of the People’s Party

Robert Reich – Fmr. Secretary of Labor; Professor at Berkeley; Author, Aftershock: ‘The Next Economy and America’s Future’ Thursday, March 7, 2011 Look at the outrage in Madison, Wisconsin. Look at the crowds in Des Moines, Iowa. Look at the demonstrations in Indiana and Ohio and elsewhere around America. Hear what they’re saying: Stop attacking unions. Stop making scapegoats out of public employees. Stop protecting the super-rich from paying their fair share of the taxes

Jay Murdock

Mar 7, 2011
7 min

America Is Not Broke

America is not broke. Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It’s just that it’s not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich. Today just 400 Americans have mo

Jay Murdock

Feb 22, 2011
4 min

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Streets

Marty Kaplan – Director, Norman Lear Center , Professor at the USC Annenberg School Posted: February 21, 2011 01:19 PM The power has gone out in a typical American town. Wait — it’s not just the electricity. The phones don’t work, either. Portable radios are dead. Cars won’t start. But then lawn mowers and cars and lights inexplicably start and stop on their own. What’s going on? A meteor? Sunspots? Or are there, as Tommy’s comic book suggests, aliens among us, preparing for

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